Show STo ONE PICTURE AT GETTYSBURG How Gre Great t PI PIckett kett Charge Looked to a Spectator on Union Left Left Left- G Gathered Up Wounded On the first da day at Gettysburg urs Sedgwick's wicks wick's Sixth corps to which I was attached was at Manchester About 1 o'clock a a. a in m. July I 1 1863 we wo received received re re- received orders to make all haste to Gettysburg Pa writes Franklin Broad Broadbelt Broadbelt belt of the tho One Hundred and Nineteenth Nine Pennsylvania now living in Philadelphia in the National Tribune The TIle 37 miles was made In 17 hours without a halt We e arrived on tho the field field field- at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of July 2 2 and occupied positions on Little Round Top I I with a number of or others was detailed to gather In the the wounded from the wheat field the adjacent wood back of the thc Devils Devil's Den and away over the fields toward the Trostle fly A d 1 r eb vl c g it I l V n The Musketry Was Was Terrific house louse where General Sickles was so su badly wounded ed and lost a leg It Was waa weary work for tor us to do after ou our long ong and arduous march of or the day but out many human lives were a at t stake A few moments moments' time meant life o or orde de death th to many of them Amid the wicked wicked whirring of the rifle balls ani and exploding shells the wounded were were searched out and carried to the rear rea of Df Little Round Top to an Improvised improvise hospital where their injuries were attended at at- tended ended to Many died on the stretch ers while being carried off the field We beheld scenes that day which can never be effaced from a behold behold- beholders beholder's ers er's memory Up to o midnight we remained remained remained re re- re- re on detail We lay down on he bare ground and fell Cell asleep to b be wakened awakened by the boom of the rebels rebels' annon cannon in the early morning of th the hard bird days day's battle Early in the afternoon away off ocr t tour tour to our ur right we could hear the booming of f the cannon and see the long Un line f Picketts Pickett's forces e emerging from th the wooded slope of Seminary Ridge t to tart start on their c ever er memorable bu hut atal charge upon the center of th the nion line We watched their lines advancing the storm of or shot and shell shel front the Union cannon Greet Great gaps gap opened up their lines which were promptly filled up and by the time tim he Emmitsburg pike was reached w we ost sight of them in the great vo vol ime of smoke which enveloped them The musketry was terrific Then The came orders for our brigade to move to o the right But the he conflict was wa over aver before we could reach the scene W We were then hurried back to th the tho Round Tops to protect our left flank Our next position was on the right General Russels Russel's Third brigade being I to o the left of the Taney Taneytown town pike fac fac- log ling ng south I During the night of July 3 our regiment regiment regi regi- ment took up a a. a position near the summit summit sum sum- mit of Big Round Top where we spent sent our Fourth of July 1863 On Sunday morning July 5 the Sixth corps received orders to follow Lees Lee's army on its retreat Lees Lee's rear guard was encountered at Marsh l Run Bridge about three miles from Get Get Get- A few pieces pieces' of artillery ba be bang beIng Ing ng brought to bear on them they soon sl At Fairfield Pa ty cy had quite a lively skirmish with phem after which tb they y fell Cell back hr th e mountain pa passes es towards All ll along our line of of that o a 1 ly t every every house and barn vas fill filled d wit I WO fd d n men en of Lees Lee's army At ah ab 0 o'clock that wing orders to report at Hagers Hagers- wn and from rom t ence we marched to toe toe e e Lees Lee's army at Williamsport on i th k Potomac riye ro at t S K L I |